There's a party in the jungle today, and the animals are gathering on the ancient statues, but space is limited, and all the animals want to climb on top. If too many animals are on a statue, they all fall down and have to climb up anew.
In Dschungelgedrängel, players each have four statue cards in front of them. In their hands, they hold cards with different numbers of the four animals: elephants, tigers, monkeys, and parrots. The goal is to stack nine animals of a kind on top of the respective statues. On their turn, players can either play any number of cards of the same animal type on a statue, or they can play an action card that messes with other players' plans. If at any time a player has more than nine animals of a kind on a given statue, they all fall down and the statue is empty again.
The first player to fill three statues triggers the game end; at the end of that round, the player with the most filled statues wins.